You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

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Published 1943		Writer(s) Cole Porter

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. Dinah Shore had a major hit with the song at the time of its introduction. Diane Keaton performed the song in Woody Allen's movie Radio Days.

Notable recordings

Six Hits and a Miss (1943)

Noël Coward - single (1945)

Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill (with Clifford Brown) (1954)

Rita Reys - The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)

Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)

Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)

Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)

Chet Baker - Chet (1958/59)

The Coasters - One By One (1960)

Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport (1960)

Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)

Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)

Nancy Wilson - Hollywood – My Way (1963)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) with Tommy Flanagan on piano and Roy Eldridge on trumpet

Julie London - By Myself (1965)

Cilla Black - Cilla (1965)

Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)

Mel Tormé - An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)

Miki Matsubara - Blue Eyes (1984)

Billy Eckstine/Helen Merrill - Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)

Susannah McCorkle - Easy to Love—The Songs of Cole Porter (1996)

Andy Bey - Ballads, Blues & Bey (1996)

John Barrowman - John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter (2004)

Coco d'Or - Coco d'Or (2004)

Beat Kaestli - Happy, Sad and Satisfied (2005)

Tony DeSare - Last First Kiss (2007)

Chris Gillespie - Portraits Of Porter (2013)

Eltjo Haselhoff - Delovely Guitar (2007)

Mika Nakashima - Eien no Uta (2007)

Sarah Vaughan

References

You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Wikipedia

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